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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Castro Set to Join Illustrious 200 Hit, 21-and-Under Club

Submitted by Rob G. on

Unless Starlin Castro goes 0 for the rest of the season, he'll get his 200th hit sometime over the next 6 games and when he does, he'll be the 10th such major league to do it before their age 22 season.

Rk Player H Year Age Tm G PA AB R 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS Pos
1 Lloyd Waner 223 1927 21 PIT 150 683 629 133 17 6 2 27 37 23 14 0 .355 .396 .410 .806 *87/4
2 Alex Rodriguez 215 1996 20 SEA 146 677 601 141 54 1 36 123 59 104 15 4 .358 .414 .631 1.045 *6
3 Ty Cobb 212 1907 20 DET 150 642 605 97 28 14 5 119 24 57 53 0 .350 .380 .468 .848 *9
4 Buddy Lewis 210 1937 20 WSH 156 733 668 107 32 6 10 79 52 44 11 5 .314 .367 .425 .792 *5
5 Joe DiMaggio 206 1936 21 NYY 138 668 637 132 44 15 29 125 24 39 4 0 .323 .352 .576 .928 789
6 Hal Trosky 206 1934 21 CLE 154 685 625 117 45 9 35 142 58 49 2 2 .330 .388 .598 .987 *3
7 Vada Pinson 205 1959 20 CIN 154 706 648 131 47 9 20 84 55 98 21 6 .316 .371 .509 .880 *8
8 Garry Templeton 200 1977 21 STL 153 644 621 94 19 18 8 79 15 70 28 24 .322 .336 .449 .786 *6
9 Al Kaline 200 1955 20 DET 152 681 588 121 24 8 27 102 82 57 6 8 .340 .421 .546 .967 *9
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Generated 9/21/2011.

That's 4 Hall-of-Famers, 1 if-they-ignore-the-steroids-Hall-of-Famer, 2 guys whose careers were deflated by World War II (Trosky and Lewis), and 2 guys with very solid and long major league careers (Pinson and Templeton). The only shortstops of the group are A-Rod and Templeton and well, no one is comparing Castro to A-Rod. And I don't think too many people are comparing him to Templeton either, whom I remember as more of a slap-hitting switch-htter whose bad knees got the better of him. Nonetheless, it wouldn't be a terrible career for Castro if he ended up north of 2000 hits and a few All-Star selections, although we are all certainly expecting more.

For what it's worth, if you expand it to age 22 and younger, another 15 instances are added. They include repeats by Pinson, A-Rod, Waner, Cobb and Dimaggio. Then add 6 more Hall of Famers (Stan Musial, Cal Ripken Jr., Freddie Lindstrom, former Cub Billy Herman, Frankie Frisch and Hank Aaron). Two more guys with very solid careers (Harvey Kuenn and Dick Allen), yet another great career interrupted by WWII (Johnny Pesky) and then one guy who took advantage of all the good players serving during the War (Dick Wakefield). So I think it's pretty safe to say that even better days are ahead for the Cubs occasionally absent-minded shortstop.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 09:29 pm

http://joeposnanski.si.com/2011/09/21/moneyball-the-movie/?sct=hp_t11_a…
Because of all this, I had an expectation for this movie that would have been — in the words of Rob Lowe — QUITE LITERALLY impossible to fulfill. I have written often about my expectation formula for movies, how it is the hope (or lack of hope) that you have going into the movie that helps define how you felt about the movie coming out. Going into Moneyball, my hope was that the movie would be pitch-perfect for intense baseball fans AND that it would make for great entertainment for people who care little to nothing about baseball.
But no movie can be all that. Great courtroom movies generally don’t impress lawyers with their accuracy. Great medical dramas don’t often leave doctors thinking, “Oh yeah, that’s just how it is.” I have spent more than one night at dinner going over the absurd and obvious flaws of the sportswriting life in Everybody Loves Raymond or The Odd Couple. Authenticity and entertainment don’t often go well together.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 09:40 pm

it's not just inaccurate...it's wildly inaccurate and out of step with baseball reality. they made a baseball movie about baseball nerdism and left out the nerdism in favor of a false version of nerdism? ...and added witty banter between brad pitt and a little girl with an unfortunate haircut straight out of a Welch's Juice commercial. they've spent millions on ad spots all over the spectrum the past 3+ months...good luck on that.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 09:54 pm

that's the thing...im not hearing anyone outside of the baseball community (that's mostly making excuses or calling out the movie) buzzing the film as something people want to see. granted, it has a modest budget and they are blitzing the hell of this movie with advertising ventures...it shouldn't bomb money-wise. i dunno if even the US take will cover the costs, though...and i wonder how much they've spent pimping the film. i understand what went into the film, it's revisions, and why it ended up being a cussing-Disney style fluff piece...but i also understand it's a 2 hour exercise in Any Given Sunday gone wrong. ...also, Dolphin Tale has a 88% at rt.com...im sure if i was 6 i'd enjoy it.

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Submitted by crunch on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 09:05 pm

a friend of mine was at the same press screening (unless SI went to the real screening with the real stars) and filled me in on watching 2+ hours of trying to make fake business seem like real business and real excitement. there's only so many beane distraught, beane mad, and beane being a smarmy smartass scenes you can watch while he's sitting in a chair (when he's not throwing them) or riding around in his car. unfortunately, he's also a baseball fan and had a hard time sitting through things he know didn't happen, aren't true, and are just plain stupid. he had a special place for the scenes of hatteberg character and coaches make believing moving a guy from C to 1st requiring a montage comparable of a person learning to ski and becoming awesome at it so they can save the ski lodge from the preppie bullies. i was also told i'd be rather disgusted in how the scouts were portrayed and it's worse than what was shown in the commercials. i'm interested to know if joe blow is actually going to plunk down $7+ for this. it's not exactly the "Facebook movie" but it tries to be...and my boy claims that the actual baseball footage is pretty slim...which goes against what SI dude says...weird on that one.

Submitted by The Real Neal on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 09:32 pm

The chart makes me wonder... when was the last time a guy lead the league in stolen bases and RBI's like Cobb. It will be interesting to see how he progress, Templeton was a pretty good player (traded for Ozzie) who may have even got some HoF consideration had he stayed a little healthier.

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Submitted by Arizona Phil on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 09:18 pm

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:48pm. still fascinating, the led the league in SLG and 3B as well as OPS, but 3rd in SB's. but they didn't lead by that much in those categories, but still nearly half a run better per game on runs scored. a lot of singles and a lot of extra bases apparently... =================================== ROB G: Pre-1920, the ball was like a mushy 16-inch softball (i. e. "dead") and it was difficult to hit balls over the fence. So a premium was placed on defense, speed, base-stealing, and the ability to intentionally place hits where the fielders weren't located (i. e. "hit 'em where they ain't"). When Babe Ruth set what was then the single-season HR record in 1919 with 29, he broke a record that had stood for 35 years (which is one year longer than the Babe's later single-season HR record of 60 stood). And then when he hit 54 HR in 1920 (when the "live" ball was introduced), Babe (by himself) out-homered every A. L. club but one. BTW, the single-season HR champion prior to Babe Ruth was the Chicago White Stockings (now Cubs) very own Ned Williamson, who hit 27 in 1884. The White Stockings (Cubs) were playing in a ballpark (Lakefront Park) located at Randolph & Michigan (on the site of the former city dump) at that time, and the LF fence was only 180 feet from home plate (allowing Williamson Dingers to fly over the fence onto Michigan Avenue). The park had the largest seating capacity of any major league stadium at the time (10,000), and also featured "sky boxes" for the high-rollers. The park was a multi-purpose stadium, too, and was used for bicycle races and other popular events (like Perry Como concerts). The park was abandoned by the White Stockings after Williamson's record-setting HR season because it did not meet new minimum field specifications (at least 200 feet to all outfield fences) established by MLB post-1884. There were just way too many home runs being hit there.

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Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 09:58 pm

"when was the last time a guy led the league in stolen bases and RBI's like Cobb?" Cobb did it three times, as did Honus Wagner. Cobb did it last in 1911. In my quick search, I didn't see anyone else. I looked a little more carefully at the 1950s and later, because the names (and the skills associated with the names) are more familiar to me. I didn't actually find anyone in the last 60-odd years who led the league in RBI in one year and SBs in another, let alone the same year--except, oddly enough, Jackie Jensen, with 116 RBI in 1955 and a paltry but league-leading 22 SBs in '54. Also odd that Mays, who led in SBs four straight seasons, never led in RBI. He did have Aaron, Banks and others to contend with, also Tommie Davis who knocked in 153 in 1962 to Mays's 141. That was a huge RBI number for Mays. My recollection is that he batted third in an era when sluggers usually hit fourth, so that may have put him at a competitive disadvantage, RBI-wise. Barry Bonds led in RBI once (1993, with 123), SBs never.

Submitted by crunch on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 09:31 pm

wow..leo nunez suspened and placed on the resticted list. they are dead set on scaring away FA's over there...wonder wtf he did. after the logan incident it's probably something major because they took a lot of heat for that from fans and peers.

Submitted by Rob G. on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 09:05 pm

as much as I'd prefer the higher draft pick for the Cubs, I'd prefer the Cardinals missing the playoffs even more. so go Cubs this weekend.

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Submitted by navigator on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 09:49 pm

Yeah, things are lining up for the Cards for the wildcard. They must be stopped. In their last two series they won 3/4 from the Phillies and 2 in a row now from the Mets--one more to go. Then they finish against the Cubs and the hopeless Astros. On the other hand the Braves have lost their last two series to the Mets and Marlins and face the Nationals and Phillies. Wow! This is almost exciting.

Submitted by Rob G. on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 09:09 pm

certainly not as good as the work of Muskat, but Goldstein chases down some quotes from the A's powers-that-be on how they're evaluating players in the minors and draft nowadays and other such things. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=15088 “The highest-paid statistic right now in major-league baseball in on-base percentage,” explained Beane. “That just wasn't the case 10 years ago. The universe gets back in order, and you are never going to monopolize any arbitrage for an extended period of time.” “I don't think much has changed in the way we make decisions,” said David Forst, who has been with Oakland for more than a decade, and the assistant GM since 2004. “What we do is different, but more so now than before. At the end of the day, we are trying to acquire the same players as other teams.” It's not that Oakland has changed in the last decade as much as the industry catching up to their way of thinking, leaving the future of the Athletics a far greater challenge than Beane and company faced heading into the new millennium. “We have our hands full,” explains Beane. “It's tougher now, but we've done it before. You asked me how things have changed. Well, we had a bad market and a bad venue 10 years ago, and now it's worse. The frustration is part of the deal, the challenge is fun to a point, but we've been trying to get a new stadium for 20 years, and now we're the last ones in line. Next year, once Florida moves into their new park, we will be the only shared facility in the game.”

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Submitted by crunch on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 09:20 pm

obviously...i keep bringing it up. wait. "i still think people give CM a bad wrap...sure her "mailbag" articles are mostly a joke, but she does some good writing and gets her quotes." "CM gets her quotes on the ground. it helps to have access...but some other MLB.com writers don't even use that access." --- and --- "indded, her incredible ability to transfer from audio recorder to word processing software is unheralded!!!" "nah, I was just confused at praising her ability to get quotes while working for cubs.com." "No one is gonna turn her down or have the option to turn her down. I guess props for being good enough to get the job in the first place....and then there's the part where (probably due to pressure from her bosses) to not relate many of the less-than-flattering quotes." "sure, no one does fluff pieces like Muskat and cubs.com." "certainly not as good as the work of Muskat, but Goldstein chases down some quotes from the A's powers-that-be"

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  • crunch (view)

    happ, right hamstring tightness, day-to-day (hopefully 0 days).

    he will be reevaluated tomorrow.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    I guess I'm not looking for that type of AB 

    Just a difference of opinion

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    I don’t see Tauchman as a weak link in any position. He simply adds his value in a different way.

    I don’t know that we gain much by putting him in the outfield - Happ, Bellinger and Suzuki and Tauchman all field their positions well. If you’re looking for Taucnman’s kind of AB in a particular game I don’t see why it can’t come from DH.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Tauchman gets a pinch hit RBI single with a liner to RF. This is his spot. He's a solid 4th OF. But he isn't a DH. 

    He takes pitches. Useful. I still believe in having good hitters.

    You don't want your DH to be your weak link (other than your C maybe)

  • crunch (view)

    bit of a hot take here, but i'm gonna say it.

    the 2024 marlins don't seem to be good at doing baseballs.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Phil, will the call up for a double header restart that 15 days on assignment for a pitcher? Like will wesneski’s 15 days start yesterday, or if he’s the 27th man, will that mean 15 days from tomorrow?

    I hope that makes sense. It sounds clearer in my head.

  • Charlie (view)

    Tauchman obviously brings value to the roster as a 4th outfielder who can and should play frequently. Him appearing frequently at DH indicated that the team lacks a valuable DH. 

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Totally onboard with your thoughts concerning today’s lineup. Not sure about your take on Tauchman though.

    The guy typically doesn’t pound the ball out out of the park, and his BA is quite unimpressive. But he brings something unique to the table that the undisciplined batters of the past didn’t. He always provides a quality at bat and he makes the opposing pitcher work because he has a great eye for the zone and protects the plate with two strikes exceptionally well. In addition to making him a base runner more often than it seems through his walks, that kind of at bat wears a pitcher down both mentally and physically so that the other guys who may hit the ball harder are more apt to take advantage of subsequent mistakes and do their damage.

    I can’t remember a time when the Cubs valued this kind of contribution but this year they have a couple of guys doing it, with Happ being the other. It doesn’t make for gaudy stats but it definitely contributes to winning ball games. I do believe that’s why Tauchman has garnered so much playing time.

  • Arizona Phil (view)

    Miles Mastrobuoni cannot be recalled until he has spent at least ten days on optional assignment, unless he is recalled to replace a position player who is placed on an MLB inactive list (IL, Paternity, Bereavement / Family Medical). 

     

    And for a pitcher it's 15 days on optional assignment before he can be recalled, unless he is replacing a pitcher who is placed on an MLB inactive list (IL, Paternity, or Bereavement / Family Medical). 

     

    And a pitcher (or a position player, but almost always it's a pitcher) can be recalled as the 27th man for a doubleheader regardless of how many days he has been on optional assignment, but then he must be sent back down again the next day. 

     

    That's why the Cubs had to wait as long as they did to send Jose Cuas down and recall Keegan Thompson. Thompson needed to spend the first 15 days of the MLB regular season on optional assignment before he could be recalled (and he spent EXACTLY the first 15 days of the MLB regular season on optional assignment before he was recalled). 

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Indeed they do TJW!

    For the record I’m not in favor of solely building a team through paying big to free agents. But I’m also of the mind that when you develop really good players, get them signed to extensions that buy out a couple years of free agency, including with team options. And supplement the home grown players with free agent splashes or using excess prospects to trade for stars under team control for a few years. Sort of what Atlanta does, basically. Everyone talks about the dodgers but I feel that Atlanta is the peak organization at the current moment.

    That said, the constant roster churn is very Rays- ish. What they do is incredible, but it’s extremely hard to do which is why they’re the only ones frequently successful that employ that strategy. I definitely do not want to see a large market team like ours follow that model closely. But I don’t think free agent frenzies is always the answer. It’s really only the Dodgers that play in that realm. I could see an argument for the Mets too. The Yankees don’t really operate like that anymore since the elder Steinbrenner passed. Though I would say the reigning champions built a good deal of that team through free agent spending.

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